Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy (born 27 August 1945) is a linguist and Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand). He is known for his expertise on morphology and word formation.[1][2]
Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy | |
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| Born | 27 August 1945 |
| Education | School of Oriental and African Studies (PhD) |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford (BA Hons in Literae Humaniores) |
| Known for | works on English morphology |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Morphology, Word formation |
| Institutions | University of Canterbury |
| Thesis | Constraints on allomorphy in inflexion (1981) |
| Doctoral advisor | Theodora Bynon, Geoffrey C. Horrocks |
| Other academic advisors | Paul Kiparsky, Dick Hudson |
Books
edit- Allomorphy in Inflexion. London: Croom Helm. 271pp. 1987. ISBN 0709934831 (With Andrew Carstairs as the named author.) Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2013. ISBN 9780415825047, ISBN 9780203694473. (With Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy as the named author.)
- Current Morphology. London: Routledge. 289pp. 1992. ISBN 0415071186, ISBN 0415009987. 2002. ISBN 9781138868410.
- The Origins of Complex Language: An inquiry into the evolutionary beginnings of sentences, syllables and truth. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 260pp. 1999. ISBN 0198238215.
- An Introduction to English Morphology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 151pp. 2002.
- 2nd edition, 2018.
- The Evolution of Morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 272pp. 2010. ISBN 9780199299782.
- Zeus, Jupiter, Jesus and the Catholic Church: What Good Is a God? Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 150pp. 2021. ISBN 9781527575516.
References
edit- ^ "Paradigmatics precedes syntagmatics in language evolution?". doi:10.3366/word.2017.0102.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Hinzen, Wolfram (2003). "Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy, Origins of Complex Language. An Inquiry into the Evolutionary Beginnings of Sentences, Syllables, and Truth". Linguistics and Philosophy. 26 (6): 765–780. doi:10.1023/B:LING.0000004696.34349.d0. S2CID 170379895.
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